pop culture

By Maya Zalbidea, 26 July, 2014
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In the visual arts, from the 60s, pop art makes a profuse use of the appropriation. The topic of appropriation approaches dangerously to paranoid. Here, alteregos and eschizophrenic ghosts of the own-someone else's and own-other appear. In this game od double meanings and double codes -expectation, reading, listening-, the meaning becomes double, always distorted, processing questions. Reference without reference, as Derrida said? Doubles of anything, according to Baudrillard? The appropriation invites us to mistruct every text, every sign, every indentity.

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Desde las artes visuales, a partir de los años 60, el pop art hace profuso uso de la apropiación. El tema de la apropiación se acerca peligrosamente al de la paranoia. Aquí aparecen alteregos y fantasmas esquizoides de lo propio-ajeno y de lo mismo-otro. En este juego de signos duplicados y dobles códigos (de expectación, de lectura, de escucha), la significación se duplica, siempre alterada, dando lugar a una serie de cuestionamientos. ¿Referencia sin referente, según planteaba Derrida? ¿Dobles de nada, al decir de Baudrillard? La apropiación nos invita a desconfiar de todo texto, de todo signo, de toda identidad.

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The individuals who comprise the PCA/ACA are a group of scholars and enthusiasts who study popular culture. The PCA/ACA offers a venue to come together and share ideas and interests about the field or about a particular subject within the field. It also provides publication opportunities and sponsors the PCA/ACA Endowment.

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This generative poem re-purposes the code in “Tokyo Garage” and produces a remix of “Taroko Gorge” that is also an inversion of the natural world. As the poem unfolds like an endless stream of Toy Story outtakes (in which toys gain a life of their own when away from the children that own them), but with other older toys, many of which are no longer in circulation. Words like “toxic” remind us of some of the reasons these toys were recalled or discontinued. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

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"Takei, George" is a remix of Nick Montfort's "Taroko Gorge," transforming Montfort's original meditative generative poem into a comment on pop culture, fandom, and contemporary politics.

(Source: The ELO 2012 Media Art Show)

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